There are just some days that I don’t eat many veggies. I’m learning that it’s okay. What I eat doesn’t define me. I don’t live to eat. I eat to live. Recovery takes faith. It does. It’s faith in a God who is incredibly powerful, a God who made my body, soul, and spirit to live for Him, and faith in a God who will bless each ounce of food to my body.

Thanks Jenn, Arman, and Laura for providing these link-ups every week.

🙂 Ok, so I haven’t been eating tons of vegetables, and I’m okay with that. However, I’ve really been re-learning intuitive eating for which I’m really grateful. Sometimes a salad sounds good, and sometimes a ‘mug cake’ sounds good. 🙂

I’ve also been gazing at the CUTEST husky dog ever, chilling on my sister’s bed. Aren’t animals such wonders of God’s creation?

Full fat yogurt is the WAY to go! 🙂 I will definitely do the low-fat if we have it, but I have to say that full fat is my favorite. 🙂 God made fat for a reason. It tastes way better than ‘no-fat.’

Gluten free crackers and leftover chicken pot pie made a very satisfying and quick lunch yesterday…

BIG NEWS: Okay, this isn’t huge news, but God blessed me with an incredible experiment in the kitchen yesterday. I made ‘Gluten Free S’mores Caramel Cupcakes.’ And my family loved them! THANK YOU LORD! That little gift made me night.

This is me attempting to do a photo-shoot with my phone. I lost my I-pod, so I had to resort to this. Thankfully, the Ipod is somewhere around our house, so I’m praying that I can find it soon. It’s just a good reminder that none of it is my stuff. It’s all the Lord’s, and sometimes He takes it away to get my eyes back on Him.

This snack. You must have it, if you like yogurt? It’s ‘Greek Gods’ (I don’t love the name) honey yogurt with trail mix. It definitely satisfies your sweet tooth and your stomach. 😀

I’ve definitely enjoyed some delicious veggies in the past week. I’m trying to imitate some of the best Instagrammers with being more intentional about the way I pile my salads. Does anybody else want to take the time to make nice looking salads or are you impatient like me?

And isn’t this cool? It’s a flashlight… Do you recognize the superheroes?

What have you been eating lately?

Do you take food photos with a nice camera or attempt to do it with a phone/I-pod?

If you have a chance, I would love for you to be able to check out this post, ‘Why Recovery Takes Faith.’ I hope it would be an encouragement to you.

I’m not a gym junkie. I have discovered that I really am not a person who loves getting up at 6 AM and going to the gym. It’s not that I don’t like getting up early.

I’ve always been a bit of an independent person when it comes to exercise. When I was really struggling with ED, part of the reason I didn’t like going to the gym was because I didn’t like seeing the other girls there that were so much ‘skinnier’, so much ‘prettier’, or ‘fitter’ than me. I was incredibly concerned that my looks just weren’t good enough.

That desire didn’t lessen until I began to read and search God’s Word more about beauty, and discover that the beauty He desires in a woman is not the pretty, fit, muscular body or the best clothes and most amazing fashion.

1 Peter 3:3-4 says, ‘Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.’

The more I realized that going to the gym wasn’t about how I looked or compared to others, but about my heart before God, my relationship with God, my peace with God, and my security in Christ, the more the bondage of those comparisons started to drift away.
But…. I still really like working out at home or outside far better than the gym…. Why, you ask?

I love that Jenn started this link-up, because I think it is my favorite link-up of the week… Maybe it’s just because I love looking at all the food pictures and wishing I could cook like everybody else. 😀

‘When I don’t Eat Veggies.’ I know it’s an odd name especially because I’m linking up with lots of bloggers who love veggies… And I LOVE veggies too, but sometimes I just don’t get to them. Today was one of those days that I just barely squeaked by with a small plate of salad in my mouth.

Some days are just so busy that it’s just harder to stop and slice up some veggies for a salad. Not that it’s a good excuse, but I do know that I used to play the guilt-trip game if I missed my veggies, and it was never very helpful for me.

Those days I don’t eat very many veggies; it’s not that I don’t want to. However, today, I was shopping for about 6 or 7 hours, and so it was a quick tortilla, almond butter, honey, and some raisins that went into my mouth.

And… I may have consumed some fro-yo later in the day.

But, for me, now those days don’t define me, because I’m just fueling my body. I’m eating to live. It’s true that I wouldn’t go every day without vegetables, but I don’t stress about the days I don’t get vegetables, because I’m learning to trust in God instead of the the ups and downs of my diet.

God is good. Truly all the time, and even though I don’t deserve His goodness, I am so thankful for it! With that, here is another honest day of eats from the girl who normally doesn’t end the day without a giant salad. Today I did end it without one, and I don’t feel none the worse. 🙂

I started the day with OATMEAL at around 9 AM. It was good I filled up, because the rest of the day was so crazy, I managed to slip in a few more meals on the side. 🙂 The morning was also super drizzly and cloudy, so it was hands down, the perfect morning for a hot bowl of oats!

Lunch. Lunch was similarly themed with MORE almond butter, MORE honey, and more raisins on a tortilla. I wrapped it up, stacked it on the rest of my shopping ‘aids’ and trucked off to buy $1000+ worth of groceries for a conference I’m cooking for next week.

We may have stopped for a mid-afternoon snack of fro-yo… My creations always look kind of ugly because of very little color, but I promise you that the taste was anything but ugly.

(This photo looks very similar to, but wasn’t the photo of my fro-yo I had today.) Y’all, you HAVE to try toasted marshmallow frozen yogurt. It is so good… *yum*

Dinner is unpictured, but my sister blessed us all with a huge pot of fresh basil pesto pasta. If anyone has never had basil pesto pasta, you must try it now! If you don’t like basil you probably won’t like it, but fresh basil+parmesan+olive oil+garlic+nuts is a winning combination for a pasta sauce.

Right Side: I’m kind of a PB or AB&Honey kick lately along with chocolate chips or raisins… 😉

Food Find of the Week!

I finally picked up a jar of this at Sprouts after seeing it on the Yooper Girl’s blog and the Clean Eating Couple’s blog. . . And even though I plan to scoop into it tonight, I am about 99.99% sure that it will be a winner! PB&CO has not gone wrong, in my humble opinion, and per my own experience.

To cap it all off, I went for a short 2(ish) mile run tonight. It’s so freeing to run without feeling like you have to pound out a bunch of miles (for the sake of burning calories) or fueling an obsession. Tonight I just ran to decompress, think, and pray. And it was awesome. The clouds were just rolling out after a gorgeous rain storm, and this was my view!

And with that, I hope you have an amazing rest of the week!!! 🙂

Do you like veggies? (Maybe that’s a crazy question, but I know some people who don’t.)

Do you ever have days you don’t eat very many veggies? Do you feel like you need to make up for it or do you just move on.com?

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I am a very ordinary girl. I’m 21, but if you met me, you wouldn’t believe me. I am passionate about girls finding true beauty in Christ. I love peanut butter, icecream, and salad. My hobbies are cooking, baking, sharing laughs and tears with others, and sharing the fullness of joy that Christ has put in me. I love reading other blogs, and I hope that this will be a place where you can find encouragement, recipes, smiles, and joy. Click here to read more about me...